Data Delights
Dispatches from a Data Science course
Prof. Brittney E. Bailey and her Data Science students
Fall 2021
As the semester comes to a close, we are delighted to share some data-driven discoveries from the Fall 2021 sections of Data Science at Amherst College!
Scroll down to explore the students’ blog posts or use the navigation bar on the side to jump to a particular group!
Blog Posts
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As COVID-19 uprooted every aspect of our lives and put us into isolation, the importance of mental health has been recognized more and more. The initial wave of COVID was filled with fear, confusion, loneliness and many other unexpected emotions. Debates over government response became more and more partisan as the pandemic started becoming the new normal.
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2020 was a hectic year. Looking back, specifically at the election, our project group wanted to better understand which events, trends, and other factors had the greatest impact on the U.S.’s Presidential Election. To examine these factors, we looked at a wide range of datasets in order to gain the broadest possible view of issues relevant to the American electorate during 2020. In addition to election forecasting data from FiveThirtyEight, we used data from Johns Hopkins University on the COVID…
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As passionate NBA fans, we spend much of our free time watching and discussing basketball. Thus, when presented with the opportunity to apply data analysis to a real-world context, we focused on the NBA. Our goal: understand the modern NBA. In particular, we concentrated on comparisons, as we believe that data analysis serves as a powerful tool for quantifying and visualizing the game of basketball. We hope our blog will be helpful for both casual and diehard NBA fans, as well as those with even…
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